Part one of term paper
Anzia Yezierska’s novel, The Bread Givers, is an extensive observation of relationships in an immigrant family of early twentieth century America. Many social and political implications are made throughout the novel about the relationship between “Americans” and immigrants. All the characters fight their own wars in finding their pea ...

Part two of term paper
... they could push themselves into heaven with the men, to wait on them their”(95). Women were to “bear the burden” of the household, and leave the rebbe to his studies and prayers. When Bessie, the oldest, finds a potential husband, her father turns him out, saying, “Don’t forget, when she gets married, who’ll carry me the burden from this house?” (45). In Sara, her father finds his most persistent and unyielding opponent, and increasingly so as she gets older. She, the younge ...